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You know guys, I am serious, people really buy this stuff. Logical languages have a powerful advantage. There is also a Lojban facebook group, perhaps you...
Andrii (lOkadin) Zvor...
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... Careful here: Lojban is unambiguous only grammatically; semantically it can be (is, indeed) as vague or ambiguous as any natural language. This is...
John E Clifford
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Alrighty, I'll bite, what's the advantage? "I speak a syntactically unambiguous language, which allows me to _________, whereas you can't." Not only do I...
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mi ba zi gunka tu'a loi jdini i ba'a ru'e ko gunka fi tu'a mi i li'a mi na ciska bau la lojban mu'i le jdini gunka i ku'i mi tavla bau la lojban ko i u'i nai...
Fen Fen
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THIS LIST HAS BEEN MOVED\! Please go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/ to subscribe to the active lojban-list. Thank you....
Robin Lee Powell
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27892
In a message dated 1/2/2007 4:21:49 AM Central Standard Time, "M@" < matthew.dunlap@...> via ... This ignores the fact that societies can exist without...
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... I agree with what M@ and John Clifford have said above. If the guy sitting in the cubicle next to me exclaims "Windows crashed on me again!", I am not for...
Seth Gordon
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27894
If you think with an ambiguous language, you vaguely know what you are thinking about. If you are thinking in Lojban you know precisly what you are thinking...
Andrii (lOkadin) Zvor...
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Not that it will make a difference to me, but I hope you are right about your predictions. As for the virtues of Lojban, so far as I can find, there is no...
John E Clifford
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You seem to be confusing syntactically unambiguous with meaningfully unambiguous (example languages of which are, exclusively, computer languages), lojban is...
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... I disagree. One of the most serious problems with critical thinking skills is the failure to have operating definitions for one's terms. It is difficult to...
Matt Arnold
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... From: Matt Arnold I disagree. One of the most serious problems with critical thinking skills is the failure to have operating definitions for one's terms. ...
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... Then the phrase should be changed to the latter. When terms are very poorly defined, confusion results from not knowing what one is reasoning about. It's...
Matt Arnold
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So, is this for real? Did you recognize that enhanced humans conversing in Lojban have consequences on a battlefield? Seeing that picture with the Big Red Book...
Fen Fen
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Does language figure into warfare? Do common ambiguities in English result directly in death, or loss? We have "military time", and various military linguistic...
Fen Fen
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mi ponse no gansi i doi lokadin mi stidi tu'a mi...
Fen Fen
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Ambiguities are different from misunderstandings. The US military dialect of English isn't a particularly ambiguous one in this day and age. Consider the...
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li'o Of course, there can still be misunderstandings, if there is interference and the word ‘na’ doesn’t come through out of “ko na daspo le ckule”...
Fen Fen
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Clearly I don't, because as far as I can tell lojban doesn't have a mandatory mechanism for total elimination of misunderstandings, a single being working...
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My fellow jbobre, Have you visited the land where Lojban is spoken? It's called samxarmuj, meaning "computerized imaginary universe". It's a text-based world...
Robin Lee Powell
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... One acronym used by the US military is "BEN", "Basic Encyclopedia Number". The Defense Intelligence Agency distributes a "Basic Encyclopedia" with code...
Seth Gordon
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... Are there particular times where people are usually logged in? I've gotten in once in a while, and there was no one there. It might be nice to have...
Chris Capel
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... Hmm... I wonder whether the two {na}'s in {ko na ke'u na daspo le ckule} would cancel out? What would a robot bomber do? mu'o mi'e xorxes To unsubscribe...
Jorge LlambĂ­as
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... I had assumed that there was a more long-winded way of saying "na", but I don't see it from skimming the gismu list. Maybe one should tell the bomber {ko...
Seth Gordon
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... i think two {na} refering to the same work like one (ie the second one overrides the first one) like in you have to reply ja'a go'i to a sentence...
Timo Paulssen
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... whoops, the CLL (chapter 15) says otherwise: The grammar of ``na'' allows multiple adjacent negations, which cancel out, as in normal logic: 2.11) ti na...
Timo Paulssen
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... It would run a checksum against the digitally transmitted orders, notice any interference, and request to have the orders resent. ;) As for ke'u I think it...
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... another thought that just came to my mind is that lojban allows the vowels to be spoken as long as the user desires to, so maybe i'd just say...
Timo Paulssen
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... Yep. I was in italian air force and I saw similar repetitions now and then. And also the use of extended words (in English I'd say "negative" "affirmative"...
Piermaria Maraziti
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... Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKX0RN19zc0 ... To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@... with the subject unsubscribe,...
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